Annie Poon (b.1977) is a multimedia artist living in New York City. She hails from New Canaan, Connecticut. Annie moved to Manhattan after witnessing Jackson Pollock’s monumental Autumn Rhythm at the Museum of Modern art on a high school field trip.

She and her husband Kah Leong are an artist couple. They have resided in a tiny New York apartment for the past 25 years. Somehow, they own a dishwasher.

Annie studied drawing and painting but retired from the world of fine art on February 1st to pursue illustration full time. Her doctor suggested that she develop a hobby on the side. Poon had a Sony A7 left over from a filmmaking grant by the Center for Latter-day Saint Art in 2019 to film ‘The Castle’. Annie hit the streets with her repurposed camera on Valentine’s day and now tells the story of her life through the portraits of strangers.

Photography allows Poon the freedom to work alone without stress, expectation, deadlines, or deliveries. She takes multiple portraits a day of the people she sees on the streets, newsstands, food trucks, and in the stores of her West 34th Street community. She particularly enjoys photographing her cashiers at the local Whole Foods.

Annie’s gift to all these neighbors is a business card that says, ‘You Make New York Awesome.’

Annie has worked with the Maxwell Institute, The Book of Mormon Art Catalog, MIT, Pfizer, Cornell University, the BYU Museum, The Harold B. Lee Archives, The Museum of Modern Art, The Friend, The Center for LDS Art, Nickelodeon, Artful, PBS, CBS, The National Gallery, The Church History Museum, Meyer Gallery, Writ and Vision, UMOCA, and the Springville Museum of Art.

Annie’s work is collected by Heather and Bradford Pack, The Glen and Marcia Nelson Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, The BYU MoA, The Springville Museum of Art, The Harold B Lee Archives, The Church History Museum, The Chris and Janae Baird Collection, and The Richard and Claudia Bushman Collection

Annie has had six solo shows and is handicapped.